15 Halloween Cocktail & Mocktail Recipes

Raise a glass to fright night! These Halloween cocktails and mocktails — from bubbling witches' brew punch to bloody shimmering sangria — bring the spooky spirit to every sip.

Below you’ll find 15 reader-favorite recipes, each with a photo, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions. Save your favorites and enjoy!

1. Witches' Brew Punch

A bubbling green punch with dry-ice drama — the ultimate kid-friendly Halloween party drink. (Mocktail)

Ingredients

• 1 gallon lime sherbet
• 2 liters lemon-lime soda
• 1 gallon green Hawaiian Punch
• Gummy worms, for garnish

Instructions

1. Scoop the sherbet into a large punch bowl.
2. Pour over the soda and Hawaiian Punch.
3. Stir gently until frothy and bubbling.
4. Add gummy worms and serve immediately.

2. Blood Orange Vampire Cocktail

Blood orange juice, vodka, and a grenadine bleed — dark, dramatic, delicious.

Ingredients

• 2 oz vodka
• 3 oz blood orange juice
• 1/2 oz grenadine
• Ice
• Blood orange slice, for garnish

Instructions

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice.
2. Add vodka and blood orange juice; stir.
3. Slowly pour grenadine down the side so it sinks like blood.
4. Garnish with a blood orange slice.

3. Black Magic Margarita

A midnight-black margarita with activated… no — with black food coloring and a sugared rim.

Ingredients

• 2 oz silver tequila
• 1 oz triple sec
• 1 oz lime juice
• Black gel food coloring
• Black sugar, for the rim
• Ice

Instructions

1. Rim a margarita glass with lime juice and black sugar.
2. Shake tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and a drop of black coloring with ice.
3. Strain into the prepared glass over fresh ice.
4. Serve immediately.

4. Poison Apple Martini

Sour apple martini with a caramel drizzle — wickedly sweet-tart.

Ingredients

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 oz sour apple liqueur
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• Caramel sauce, for the glass
• Apple slice, for garnish
• Ice

Instructions

1. Drizzle caramel inside a chilled martini glass.
2. Shake vodka, apple liqueur, and lemon juice with ice.
3. Strain into the glass.
4. Garnish with an apple slice.

5. Candy Corn Layered Shooters

Orange and yellow layered shooters that look just like candy corn — zero proof, all fun. (Mocktail)

Ingredients

• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• Whipped cream
• Candy corn, for garnish

Instructions

1. Fill shot glasses one-third with orange juice.
2. Slowly pour pineapple juice over the back of a spoon for the second layer.
3. Top with a dollop of whipped cream.
4. Garnish with a candy corn piece.

6. Ghostly White Russian

A classic White Russian with a spooky marshmallow ghost floating on top.

Ingredients

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 oz coffee liqueur
• 2 oz heavy cream
• Ice
• 1 large marshmallow + mini chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice.
2. Add vodka and coffee liqueur; stir.
3. Float the cream over the back of a spoon.
4. Draw a ghost face on the marshmallow with chocolate chips and float it on top.

7. Pumpkin Spice Mule

Ginger beer, pumpkin, and lime in a frosty copper mug — fall's answer to the Moscow mule.

Ingredients

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 tbsp pumpkin puree
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 4 oz ginger beer
• Ice
• Cinnamon stick, for garnish

Instructions

1. Shake vodka, pumpkin, and lime juice with ice.
2. Strain into a copper mug filled with ice.
3. Top with ginger beer and stir gently.
4. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

8. Zombie Brain Hemorrhage Shot

The infamous layered shot — peach schnapps, Baileys brains, and a grenadine bleed.

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz peach schnapps
• 1/2 oz Baileys Irish Cream
• 1/4 tsp grenadine

Instructions

1. Pour the peach schnapps into a shot glass.
2. Slowly drizzle Baileys over the back of a spoon so it curdles into brains.
3. Drop grenadine through the center.
4. Shoot immediately.

9. Smoky Blackberry Smash

Muddled blackberries, bourbon, and a whisper of smoke — moody and magnificent.

Ingredients

• 6 blackberries
• 2 oz bourbon
• 3/4 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup
• Ice
• Smoked rosemary sprig, for garnish

Instructions

1. Muddle the blackberries with simple syrup in a shaker.
2. Add bourbon, lemon juice, and ice; shake well.
3. Strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
4. Garnish with a smoked rosemary sprig.

10. Caramel Apple Cider Sangria

White wine sangria with apple cider, caramel, and crisp apple slices — fall in a pitcher.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle white wine
• 2 cups apple cider
• 1/4 cup caramel sauce
• 2 apples, sliced
• 1 orange, sliced
• 2 cups ginger ale

Instructions

1. Whisk the caramel into the apple cider until dissolved.
2. Combine with wine, apples, and orange in a pitcher.
3. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
4. Stir in ginger ale just before serving over ice.

11. Eyeball Highball Punch

A ghoulish party punch with frozen lychee-and-blueberry eyeballs bobbing on top. (Mocktail)

Ingredients

• 1 can lychees, drained
• Blueberries
• 2 liters lemon-lime soda
• 1 gallon white grape juice
• Ice

Instructions

1. Stuff a blueberry into each lychee to make eyeballs; freeze 2 hours.
2. Combine soda and grape juice in a punch bowl.
3. Add ice and the frozen eyeballs.
4. Serve immediately.

12. Grave Digger Old Fashioned

A black-cherry old fashioned with an orange twist — smooth with a dark side.

Ingredients

• 2 oz bourbon
• 1/2 oz black cherry syrup
• 2 dashes bitters
• Ice
• Orange twist + black cherry, for garnish

Instructions

1. Stir bourbon, cherry syrup, and bitters with ice 20 seconds.
2. Strain over a large ice cube.
3. Express the orange twist over the glass and drop it in.
4. Garnish with a black cherry.

13. Sparkling Witch's Potion

Shimmery purple grape punch with edible glitter — pure magic for little witches. (Mocktail)

Ingredients

• 4 cups grape juice
• 2 cups sparkling apple cider
• 1 tsp edible purple glitter
• Gummy eyeballs, for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill all ingredients well.
2. Stir the glitter into the grape juice until shimmery.
3. Add the sparkling cider just before serving.
4. Pour over ice and garnish with gummy eyeballs.

14. Bloody Shimmering Sangria

Red wine sangria with blackberries and edible shimmer — hauntingly beautiful.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle red wine
• 1 cup blackberry brandy
• 2 cups cranberry juice
• 1 cup blackberries
• 1 orange, sliced
• 1 tsp edible red shimmer dust

Instructions

1. Combine wine, brandy, cranberry juice, blackberries, and orange in a pitcher.
2. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.
3. Stir in the shimmer dust just before serving.
4. Serve over ice.

15. Apple Cider Mule Mocktail

Crisp apple cider and ginger beer with lime — all the mule, none of the booze. (Mocktail)

Ingredients

• 4 oz apple cider
• 4 oz ginger beer
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• Ice
• Apple slice + cinnamon stick, for garnish

Instructions

1. Fill a copper mug with ice.
2. Add cider and lime juice.
3. Top with ginger beer and stir gently.
4. Garnish with an apple slice and cinnamon stick.